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Ajamu Dillahunt

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Ajamu Dillahunt is a Southern labor and social justice activist. He is a retired postal union leader and continues to work as a popular educator. His many organizational affiliations include the Black Workers for Justice, the Labor Network for Sustainability and the Board of Fertile Ground Food Cooperative. Contact Mr. Dillahunt David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

No One Can Be At Peace Unless They Have Freedom – A Book Review

By Ajamu Dillahunt Guest Commentator

The Black experience in the United States is as much a Southern story as it is a post Great Migration tale. All of this is represented in these pages with prescriptions for participating in the necessary resistance to the current state of affairs.

No One Can Be At Peace Unless They Have Freedom By Michael Simanga Chicago Third World Press Foundation Released in time for Black History Month, longtime…

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Guest Commentary

Tilting to the White

By Ajamu Dillahunt Guest Commentator

From the stern way that President Obama dismissed the Congressional Black Caucus last month, you’d think the CBC had insisted that every last dollar of job-creation money go to African Americans. And from the way some conservative pundits responded (columnist Michelle Malkin, for instance, called it a “shake down”), you’d think the CBC had demanded…

From the stern way that President Obama dismissed the Congressional Black Caucus last month, you’d think the CBC had insisted that every last dollar of job-creation…

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